Daren Fearon is Senior Beamline Scientist at the Diamond Light Source Ltd. He is a chemical and structural biologist with expertise in Fragment-Based Drug Discovery, Structure-Based Drug Design, protein crystallography, biophysics and medicinal chemistry. At Diamond, Daren is sponsible for managing the XChem academic user program and in-house research, including collaborations and partnerships such as EUbOpen and iNEXT-Discovery. He is also a co-investigator of the NIH funded AI-driven Structure-enabled Antiviral Platform (ASAP) AViDD Centre and a founding member of the COVID Moonshot consortium.